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melons and llnbbavd ?quashcs, wore planted in same row. Tlie melons were 

 rendered valueless by juxLapositioii. 



Mr. Lehuid : Is it not true that some sorts of corn more readily mix than 

 others y 



Mr. Stowell: I had supposed that this was true, and resulted from differ- 

 ence in time of blossoming. 



Prof. Beal : Yes, the varieties must blossom at the same time to produce 

 a cross, unless done artificially by saving the i)olleii. 



Following this discussion Mr. A. L. Aldrich gave the following very valuable 

 paper on 



HORTICULTURAL STATISTICS OF GENESEE COUNTY: 



Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: The task assigned me by 

 vour Secretary, namely, that of compiling the horticultural statistics of 

 Genesee county, has proved somewhat more formidable than I had anticipated. 

 There ai'e no records covering any part of the subject available in the County 

 Clerk's otiice, and there is nothing that would materially assist one in the 

 search for such information in the otfice of the Secretary of State, at Lansing. 

 Such facts and figures as I have been able to collate are derived from original 

 sources, and while some of them are based upon estimates instead of reports, 

 the most of tliem are furnished by the persons directly engaged in the cultiva- 

 tion of horticultural products, or in the purchase and sale of them. Li all 

 cases fhey are absolutely accurate or approximately so. 



Classifying the horticultural products of the county in the order of their 

 relative importance or cash value, 1 begin with 



APPLES. 



The tim3 allowed for the preparation of this paper was too short to permit 

 me to visit, in person, even the different townships of the county, not to say 

 individual owners of orchards, to obtain an actual count of the acreage of 

 ap[)le orcharding, but through the assistance of Hon. A. S. Partridge, Mr. 

 ]N. A. Beecher, Mr. C, F. Koseukrans, Mr. Reuben Carman, and Mr. Leonard 

 AVesson, of the Genesee County Horticultural Society, and sundry other well 

 informed gentlemen, I have been enabled to make estimates upon the amount 

 of bearing apple orcharding that are believed to be substantially correct. 



According to reports from the office of the Secretary of State, the area of 

 wheat grown in this county in 188'^, was 50,127 acres. Estimating that there 

 is one acre of apple orcharding for every twenty acres of wheat, and there 

 would be, in round numbers, 2,500 acres of bearing orchards within the limits 

 of Genesee county. 



There are ten points in the county at which apple packing is done on a more 

 or less extensive scale, namely: Flint, Fenton, Linden, Swartz Creek, Davison 

 Station, Mt. Morris, Clio, Geneseeville, Kogersville, and Grand Blanc. The 

 shipments from these several places, the present season, are as follows: 



Places. Bushels. 



Flint... yO,000 



Fenton 5,000 



Linden 2,025 



Swartz Creek 2,700 



Davison Station — 2, 500 



